7 women per man? Truth or myth?
After the Triple Alianza war or Triple Alliance war also known as the Paraguayan war (1864-1870) Paraguay was ruined, just 10% of men left, some of them where just kids and the other seniors…almost all men died in that cruel war.
Since there were no many men left and Paraguay had to rebuild its population, women (wives, mothers, and sisters) gave a lot of importance to the males in their family, even nowadays it is common a sister serving her brother or you hearing the mom asking her daughter to put the table and serve food to her brother, that is a Paraguayan build in culture, after war “civilization” .
That situation even “allowed” man to have more than one woman and after then a whole new culture of single mothers was born. Of course? Paraguay had to rebuild the country and its population, no many men left…what to do? Share!
For almost biological reasons that was to way to go, and everybody was so happy when they had a male child, boys were very cherished and respected and that gave them “powers” to think that they could do what they wanted, even have zillions of kids out of the wedlock.
Nowadays you can observe a more even population…but some of my girl friends are still single, they say they can find a man, they say there is no MAN…girls get every day more beautiful, they go to the gym, they go on special diets, they workout and wear fancy cloths, they even get hair extensions to beat the odds and get married, some even accept to be the “other” just to get a chance to fight and get a stolen man to herself…that is more common than one could think.
On the other hand, many still complain that there is no woman, that its so difficult to find a woman, they even say that the statistics are pretty even now, there is one man per woman (which i disagree) maybe there is a man per woman but not in the same or similar age range, what’s the case of having a whole generation of 30+ woman with a big population of male infants?
In any case, woman complain they can’t find a man, man are secretly happy to have pretty much the girl they want…nevertheless, when it comes to my theory, there is still some guy out there saying: “someone is out there having fun with 14 girls, with his 7 and my 7”.
Truth or myth?
June 10th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Muna- the years that you give for the war are wrong- it lasted from 1864 to 1870 and not 1964 to 1970
June 11th, 2009 at 2:02 am
oopps sorry, my mistake i will correct it right away! Thanks =)
June 11th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
How many women/girls does Lugo have?
June 14th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
seria genial si hubierea 7 hombres por mujer!!!
June 21st, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Hmmnnnn. This practice of one having 7 women was indeed similar to Islam’s permission allowing man to marry 4 women especially to take care of more widows and destitutes as a result of wars
Hence, Polygamy and polygyny was brought as a permissible social issue in Islam all the children who are born under this polygyny are legitimate children of some fathers than being classified as bastards.
The children who are born to such mothers who have to have some sort of a sexual union with some men of her choice either due to her own will and accord or due to pressure exerted on her and she has to cope with under duress are still have to be have to be classified as illigitimate children.
This is really sad to classify these children as Bastards because the mothers wont be able to positively say who the fathers of the children are. This is really a pathetic case which the women of Paraguay and their such children born out of wedlock had to face.
By expressing my personal opinions, i dont mean to cast aspersions on these children. I have all due respects for them because their birth due to such circumstances are not their own faults therefore they should be accepted and treated as decent and legitimate children of Paraguay.
Hope there is no ill feelings because of my comments. All what I have stated herein are in good faith and in good intentions!